Device for stretching wires.



J. A. KAMP. DEVICE FOR STRETGHING WIRES APPLIOATION FILED JUNE 19,

Patented Aug. 10, 1909.

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mnnsw. B. GRAHAM 00. PHprmmmaunms. wmunuromAp nnrrnn STATES PATENT onnion JOSEPH A. mm, or METAMORA, ILL NoIs.

DEVICE FOR STRETGHING WIRES.

No. 930,382. Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Aug. 10, 1909;

Application filed. June 19, 1908. Serial No. 439,329.

To all whom it may concern: K corresponding to the hook F just de Be it known that I, Josnrn A. KAMP, citiscribed. zen of the United States, residing at Meta- The manner of using the device is as folmora, in the county of Wood'iord and State lows: When the check-row wire becomes 60 of Illinois, have invented certain new and broken. the ends are picked up and the hooks useful Improvements in Devices for Stretch- F and K of the chains C and J respectively ing Wires; and I do hereby declare that the are hooked upon the wire behind one of the following is a full, clear, and exact descripbuttons or tappets of said ends substantially tion ofthe invention, which will enable othas shown in the figures. Any amount of pull 65 ers skilled in the art to which it appertains necessary to take'up the slack in the wire to make and use the same. may now be had by having the lever occupy This invention relates to a device for substantially the position shown in Fig. 1. stretching wires. Though not so'shown, the hooks F, K may The object of the invention is to provide a pass through the eyes of the tappets or 70 simple and efficient device for attachment to through the loops formed in the wire. Such the broken ends of a check-row wire by an arrangement would prevent the said which said wire may be stretched so that its hooks sli ping and accidentally losing their said ends may be readily spliced. When a hold. he chains C and J may be made of check-row wire which has been stretched any desired length andit is preferable to have 75 across a field has become broken it is necesthem oisuch a length that their hooks may sary, in order to repair the break, to cross the engage the tappets some distance from the field and release one of the secured ends so broken ends of the wire so that when drawn that the ends at the break can be lapped. together'said ends may be easily manipuhe farmer must then retrace his steps to the lated; this being clear by a study of Fig. 2. 80 planter, splice the wire, again cross the field By having intermediate hooks attached to to stretch and secure the wire and once again one or the other or both of the chains there retrace his steps to the planter to continue being one shown at L on the chain J, an adhis work. My purpose is to provide a portjustment can be made that will permit the able device, which can be carried on the lever to occupy a position that will admit oi 85 planter, that canbe utilized to bring the the properleverage.

broken ends of the wire together so that they In Fig. 2 the lever after having been carmay be spliced as already described without ried over in a direction to draw the ends of the wire together lies substantially parallel the necessity oileaving the place where the wire has parted or of crossing and recrossing to the wire and the chains. A hook M at the 90 the field to attend to the wire. free end oi the upper section of the lever is In the appended drawing; Figure 1 is an hooked around the chain 0 where it will be. held stretched while the wire is being spliced.

elevation of my device showing its connection with the parted ends of the check-row wire. Fig. 2 is a similar view showing the Usually the wire becomes broken at a bend 95 device in a different position. Fig. 3 is a or loop for instance as shown in Fig. 1 at X. longitudinal section of a lever showing a piv- When splicing the ends it is only necessary otal connection and lock. to remove theibroken part and pass the wire A and B indicate a lower and upper leverthrough the tappet and twist it upon itself.

Upon removing the stretching device the 100 work of the planter can proceed; the splicsection. Attached to the lower'end of the said section A is a chain C the attachment .ing operation only having consumed a few minutes. The series of holes G in the lever being made by means of a link or hook D,

admit of any adjustment of the chain J one end of which passes through a hole E in through its hook H so that any desired lever- 105 said lower end. Said chain is preferably three or four feet in length and at its free end age may be had and also that some latitude may be had in stretchin the device with reis a hook F adapted to hook upon one of the bottoms or tappets b of the check-row wire gard to the amount of sdack to be taken up. I have provided for folding the two leverindicated by a. The lever A is provided near the middle of its length with a series of sectionstogether as indicated by the broken 110 lines in Fig. 3 and to this end I employ a holes G with any one of which a hook H is staple, indicated by N which has two exadapted to engage; said hook being carried by a chain J whose other end carries a hook vice comprising two 7 section A is a hole P and in section B is a cor tremities of unequal length. The longest extremity N extends through both sections and has a head 0. In the extremity of the responding hole Q for receiving the short extremity R of the staple N. With said short extremity withdrawn as in Fig. 3 the sections may be folded together by swinging upon the long extremity N of the staple. When the holes P, Q, are in register the short end B can he slipped into them as shown in dotted lines thereby locking the sections relatively. This construction is employed I so that the device may be folded up so as to occupy but a small space and so that it can be stored away in the tool box if desired.

My device may be used for stretching wires of all kinds as well as check-row wires, such, for instance, as barbed wire and the I like and any means for the attachment of the chain may be used in the place of the hooks F, K as will be best suited to the work in hand and I may otherwise change my device as I see fit since I do not wish to be confined to the particular construction shown and described.

Having clearly set forth my invention, I I

V "claim 1- 1. In a wire stretching device the combil nation of a lever comprising two portions, such portions having pivoted relation, a desubstantially parallel limbs one of which ext-ends through the pertions to constitute the pivot of the portions and adapted to shift laterally therein, there being a hole in each portion adapted to be brought into register with each other, the other limb of the device adapted to enter the said holes to hold the portions relatively rigid, two members attached to one of the portions but separated from oneanother, and a hook at the free end of each member.

2. In a wire stretching device the combination of a .lever comprising two portions, such portions having pivot-ed relation, a device comprising two substantially parallel limbs one of which extends through the portions to constitute the pivot of the portions and adapted to shift laterally therein, there being a hole in each portion adapted to be brought into register with each other, the other limb of the device adapted to enter the said holes to hold the portions relativelyl rigid, two members attached to one of the" 3. In a wire stretching device the combi-' nation of a lever com rising two portions, such portions having pivoted relation, a device comprising two substantially )arallel limbs one of which extends through the portions to constitute the pivot of the portions, and adapted to shift laterally therem, there being a hole in each portion adapted to be brought into register with each other, the

other limb of the device adapted to enter the said holes to hold the portion relatively rigid, a hook at the free end of one of the portions, two members attached to the other portion but separated from one another, and a hook at the free end of each member.

4. In a wire stretching device the combination of a lever com n'ising two portions, such portions having pivoted relation, a de vice comprising two substantially parallel limbs one of which extends through the portions to constitute the pivot of the ortions, and adapted to shift laterally therein, there being a hole in each portion adapted to be brought into register with each other, the other limb of the device adapted to enter the said holes to hold the portions relatively rigid, a hook at the free end of one of the pertions, two members attached to the other portion but separated from one another, a hook at the free end of each member, and a supplen'ientary hook near the free end of one of said members.

5. A lever arm of two sections adapted to )ivot one upon another, a U-shaped. member having a long and a short extremity, the long extremity extending through the adjacent ends of the lever and forming the pivot thereof and provided with a stop at that extremity, there being a hole in each adjacent lever extremity to register with one another, the short extremity of said member adapted to enter both holes of said lever.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature, in presence of two Witnesses.

JOSEPH A. KAMP.

Witnesses L. M. TnURLow, A. KEITIILEY. 

